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...plan of New York dry leaders to draw Senator Borah into the prohibition war in New York state. For there the issues are more clear cut than elsewhere and demand the services of experienced war horses. The issues which portend confusion for the next presidential campaign have, in the Empire state, been drawn to a head. Whereas the present concern with prohibition has been accentuated in all states by the Coolidge order bringing state officials into Federal revenue service, in New York there are two definite questions confronting the combatants. The one involves the popular referendum contemplated in that state...
...Senator Borah, Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, called at the White House and agreed with the President to bring up the Lausanne Treaty with Turkey for ratification. It is certain to provoke a bitter debate because it abolishes extraterritorial rights for citizens of the U. S. in Turkey. The treaty has been pending in the Senate for over a year...
...Partakers of the President's breakfast last week were Senators Borah, Fess, Hale, Oddie, Gillett, Shortridge, Dale, Moses, Goff and Williams. All are Republicans. Their attention is reported to have been centred on the food to the exclusion of legislative matters...
...fine fight on nearly every issue that has come before this Congress. He poured forth fire and brimstone on the World Court, on the Debt settlements. He is one of the fiercest attackers of prohibition. You see that map with the big weather-worn face? That is Mr. Borah. He is our finest orator. The galleries are always full when he is going to speak. He belongs to the other party but his stand on foreign relations-he is chairman of the Committee-is about the same as Jim Reed's. They are the two most forceful...
Meanwhile Samuel Untermyer had been engaged on behalf of the strikers to present their case to the more sympathetic ears of Senators Borah, LaFollette and others in Washington...